SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 46

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Episode 46

After being dragged all the way to the restaurant and even having a meal, I finally couldn’t hold back any longer and raised my voice.

“Damn it, cut the bullshit. I need to go Home now…!”

Even though I was a reluctant introvert who stayed Home all weekend due to having no plans, I had my own plans to spend two days lying around in my comfortable and peaceful Home.

Filling the bathtub with warm water and soaking drowsily, watching peaceful slice-of-life movies I had picked out beforehand, lying on the edge of my bed in the sunlight and taking afternoon naps…

Others might laugh and ask if such things could even be called plans, but they were satisfying daily routines I wasn’t ashamed of.

Besides, I hadn’t come out with the intention of hanging around with these two for so long from the start. If I had known it would turn out like this, I would have just stayed holed up at Home instead of going down to the first floor, regardless of whether Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min waited endlessly or not.

“So, why do you need to go Home?”

Seo Jung-hoo asked as he skillfully held me back.

There were many reasons, but I didn’t want to tell them to these two in front of me only to be ridiculed. Maybe Kwon Tae-min would be different, but knowing that Seo Jung-hoo would mock me a hundred or thousand times over made my rebellious spirit flare up even more.

I clamped my mouth shut and glared with my eyes. When I stared at him with murderous eyes, Seo Jung-hoo slowly curved the corners of his eyes.

“You want to play a little more too, don’t you?”

“What the hell…! When are you going to replace those damn eardrums of yours?”

“Kwon Tae-min. Let’s go to that Park over there.”

Seo Jung-hoo clearly regarded my anger as nothing more than petty whining. I struggled to put up some resistance, but it was meaningless because of Kwon Tae-min’s grip holding me from the other side.

With both my arms held like I was being arrested, I caught my labored breath and fumed. Even in my exhaustion, I had no intention of just submitting quietly. I continued to resist, trying to drag my feet and hold my ground.

Then my movements suddenly lost strength and stopped abruptly. Through the gaps between the people crowding the street, a black silhouette caught my attention.

A black shirt and suit clearly visible even from a distance, black sunglasses covering both eyes. While it wasn’t entirely unusual for people to wear suits on weekends, the subtle sense of unease emanating from them was definitely…

‘…It’s someone the System sent.’

Even before fear could bloom, my body instinctively froze as if it had been trained over the past days. Soon after, a beat late, strange anxiety and fear arose and gripped my insides.

Why is that bastard standing there? He’s definitely looking this way – is he monitoring me? No, if it’s the System, they can see what I’m doing and where I am anytime, so there’s no need to send that creepy guy to monitor me.

‘Then what, are they planning to just grab me off the street and drag me away?’

There had been precedent for that before, but back then there wasn’t even an ant passing by, let alone people around. It was different from now when the streets were bustling with people.

‘…No way.’

How could they avoid and deceive the eyes of all these people? It wasn’t the situation I wanted, but Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min were still right beside me with their eyes wide open.

Seo Jung-hoo had already faced that guy before, so this time wouldn’t be any different. Having been burned once, even if I tried to persuade him with all my efforts, it probably wouldn’t work well.

Fortunately, the System didn’t seem to intend to act recklessly either, as the guy didn’t approach me and just stood there in the distance. The gaze that persistently followed my every movement was creepy, but if he wasn’t going to cause direct harm, it was bearable.

“…This is really unbearable.”

Only giving me hell.

Muttering words that should have stayed in my thoughts had become so familiar that it no longer stirred any particular emotion. After letting out an obvious sigh, I stopped struggling and went limp.

As long as the guy the System sent was watching me, especially from nearby, leaving these two and returning Home right away wasn’t a good choice. If I tried to run Home alone without Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min and got caught and harmed, nothing could be more miserable.

Just because I reached a rational conclusion didn’t mean my emotions calmed down immediately. I kept moving my mouth and grumbling. Then I felt Kwon Tae-min’s grip on my left arm loosen and turned to look.

While dutifully escorting me, Kwon Tae-min had his head turned not forward but in another direction. The place I had been glaring at just moments ago, where that guy was…

Before I could finish my thought, Kwon Tae-min suddenly turned his head. I flinched in surprise at the sudden eye contact.

“What, what is it? Why, what!”

“…Didn’t you look at me because you had something to say?”

“Damn, can’t I just look? Did you lease out your face?”

The words popped out without going through reason, but thinking about it later, there was nothing more ridiculous than that.

Since it’s his own face, he could say he leased it out himself. No, that would be natural.

I clamped my mouth shut and slyly rolled my eyes. While trying to avoid Kwon Tae-min’s gaze that was persistently following me, I heard a voice tinged with laughter from the other side.

“Baek-hwa, I didn’t lease out my face. You can look at it as much as you want if you’d like.”

Damn it.

“He’s definitely human, not a dog, so why does he keep barking like one?”

“Are you talking about me?”

“Then damn, who else would I be talking about?”

Seo Jung-hoo, who had been pointing at himself with his finger, languidly narrowed his eyes again. The smile on his lips deepened.

“You’re just asking me to look at you too, right?”

I glared at Seo Jung-hoo with disgusted eyes, then quietly looked away, overwhelmed by his gaze that seemed to glisten more intensely than mine.

Even though it was Saturday afternoon, the Park wasn’t as crowded as expected. Because the Park wasn’t very large, the sound of car horns and city noise from nearby mixed in – it wasn’t exactly like pristine nature, but it wasn’t bad either.

After seeing the guy the System sent, I had decided to obediently follow Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min, but I was still being dragged along reluctantly rather than moving of my own accord. However, after passing the Park entrance, I quickened my pace as if enchanted, not even noticing when they let go of my arms.

Since I had always just gone between Home and School, I naturally had never been to a Park before. I didn’t even know there was such a cozy and warm Park here.

My vacant eyes couldn’t bring themselves to close carelessly. The road was still visible beyond the sparsely planted trees, and it wasn’t the season for cherry blossoms to bloom or autumn leaves to fall, so there wasn’t much special to see. But even that was quite a novel stimulus for me.

A cool breeze blew over and tickled my face. My disheveled bangs blocked my vision, so I squeezed my eyes shut and clumsily swept them back with my hand.

‘…Warm, languid, and drowsy.’

And peaceful too.

The gentle sunlight shining down on my head, light clothes on my unfatigued body. My mood was a bit off, but it was a fresh moment that was pleasant enough to endure and get through that much.

“Let’s walk along the Walking Path to digest lunch and then head back. I’ll take you Home.”

Seo Jung-hoo suddenly stuck his face in front of mine and smiled gently. Looking at his face, I snapped back in a much more deflated tone.

“Of course you should take me Home. Were you planning to abandon me and go back together? Who were the bastards who dragged me here in the first place?”

Seo Jung-hoo’s eyes crinkled mischievously.

“Didn’t you tell us not to come near you on the way Home from School before?”

Since he was right, I couldn’t think of a rebuttal. I opened and closed my mouth, then glared fiercely.

“…What the hell. What am I supposed to do? Is that the same as this?”

“Our Baek-hwa curses first when he has nothing to say.”

“Shut, shut up! Please just shut up!”

I reached out and slapped Seo Jung-hoo’s lips. Even so, finding something so amusing, he didn’t even frown once and just kept grinning.

Feeling defeated for no reason, I was trembling while glaring at Seo Jung-hoo when a cautious touch from the side brushed my cheek.

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